Happy anniversary to the Silk Road era! Celebrating the day that changed Bitcoin forever.

Tether Announces the Launch of USA₮, the Federally Regulated, Dollar-Backed Stablecoin, Made in America

Tether Announces the Launch of USA₮, the Federally Regulated, Dollar-Backed Stablecoin, Made in America - Tether.io

27 January 2026 – Tether, the largest company in the digital asset industry, today announces the official launch of USA₮, the federally regulat...

Bitcoin stands as the 21st-century's ultimate private store of value—protecting human (and humanoid) wealth across time better than anything else—while serving as sound, digital money that's perfectly suited for transferring value seamlessly across space.

🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Bessent says Federal Reserve independence "does not mean no oversight."💪🇺🇸 Now Time to expose the fraud at the Fed and all central banks around the world.

"If you are not paying for it, you are the product. And if it is a political system, the product that they are buying is control over you." What if a government-promoted "free" digital currency—like the UAE's Digital Dirham, now rolling out in phases with a full integration targeted for 2026—seems like a convenient upgrade to cash, but actually enables unprecedented total surveillance and centralized control over every transaction? These **central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)** promise efficiency and inclusion, yet they come with the risk of governments tracking spending in real time, potentially programmable to restrict purchases, freeze accounts, or enforce compliance—echoing sneaky inflation tactics through easier monetary manipulation and drawing parallels to outright financial repression seen in places like Iran, where the Digital Rial (already piloted and launched) has been explicitly designed for easy tracking, dissident monitoring, and tighter state grip on money flows amid sanctions and repression. While such systems lure people in with promises of seamless payments, Bitcoin and other open-source, decentralized tools offer a powerful counter: - censorship-resistant money that individuals truly control - free from intermediary seizure or oversight - empowering us to resist the trap of surveillance disguised as progress. The real question is whether we'll buy into the illusion of convenient control or actively build our own financial freedom through decentralized alternatives. Read HRF’s latest Financial Freedom Report #104 Link:

Human Rights Foundation

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #104

Good morning readers, We begin this week in Iran, where currency collapse has turned into a call for political change. Across the country, mass pro...

FROSTR (

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takes advantage of Schnorr signatures—which are much more flexible than the old standard—to allow multiple people to share control of a single Nostr account. It uses a method called FROST to let a group (like 2-out-of-3 people) sign off on posts or actions directly through Nostr. This is a brilliant approach because it allows for easy key updates and better security. It’s very similar to the enterprise-grade tools we are building at PrivKey.io.

Every feeling that moves inside you is born from one of two ancient roots. One root is love — quiet, steady love for what is good, what is true, what is beautiful, or for the people and duties you care for. When this root grows strong, it becomes joy, gratitude, courage, patience, kindness. The other root is fear — fear of losing something, fear of not getting something, fear that the world is unsafe or that you are not enough. When this root grows, it becomes anger, jealousy, worry, sadness that clings, desire that hurts. The wise person watches his heart like a gardener watches his plants. He asks quietly: “Is this feeling watered by love… or by fear?” Then he tends only the plant of love, and lets the fear-root wither from neglect. That is the whole work. Not to feel nothing — but to feel what comes from the better root.

Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T all experienced major nationwide outages at the same time. When your SMS-based 2FA stops working because of these carrier outages, the best alternatives are using an authenticator app (like Google Authenticator, Authy, or Microsoft Authenticator) or a hardware security key such as a YubiKey.

What a blessing to be alive right now.

Wishing you a happy anniversary of Bitcoin's first transaction!

"Today's the day." --Mel Fisher The importance of the this company's annual letter. From hunting treasure to using statistics, Ross Stevens explains why Bitcoin is a vital tool for human rights. The highlight is a moving message from Maria Karina Machado that shows the emotional heart of the tech. Stevens argues that optimism is a strategy: if you don’t believe in your success until it’s guaranteed, you’ll never get there. Article: Stone Ridge 2025 Investor Letter

Stone Ridge 2025 Investor Letter

Stone Ridge 2025 Investor Letter from Ross Stevens, Founder and CEO

Is the U.S. government's prosecution of innovative Bitcoin developers like Rodriguez and Hill the final nail in the coffin for American entrepreneurship? Beautyon's piece 'American Bitcoin Suicide' is a must-read—it lays out how activist judges and unchecked regulatory overreach are strangling innovation. Could building truly decentralized tools like Bitcoin and Nostr be the only way left to push back and preserve America's future as a hub of technological freedom? Read it here: https://medium.com/@beautyon_/american-bitcoin-suicide-e6d9444dc207

My company recently brought on four AI-powered digital workers. They're not on the payroll, don't require insurance, and best of all, some of them are even designing and creating hardware products.

Today marks Bitcoin's birthday—the anniversary of the Genesis Block being mined on January 3, 2009—as well as Proof of Keys Day!

I believe the US Treasury will soon issue a new type of dollar-backed stablecoin—similar to Tether's USDT but fully regulated in the US—as a new form of currency that will exist alongside the current Federal Reserve Note. This new "Treasury Reserve Note" would be backed by a basket of real commodities, including gold, oil, real estate, and Bitcoin. It would trade at a significant premium, with an exchange rate of roughly 500 current Federal Reserve dollars to 1 new US Treasury Reserve Note.

I'm a 56-year-old IT networking veteran who started in the field back in the 1990s. Over the decades, my work has naturally evolved, pulling me deeper into cybersecurity. What began as general networking has shifted into specialized cybersecurity development—something I once thought I wasn't particularly good at. Today, however, I'm orchestrating AI to build advanced tools that other AIs and business clients actively purchase and use. On top of that, I've partnered with my son in this venture. Like me, he discovered early on that technology doesn't close doors—it opens them.

[Task] Chrome browser extension made Nostr-Feedz is currently a web app (and PWA), but it lacks a dedicated Chrome browser extension. Feeder.co (a similar RSS feed reader) has a popular Chrome extension that provides quick access to feeds, notifications for new items, easy subscription from any page, and a popup/sidebar interface. It would be great to create a similar Chrome extension for Nostr-Feedz to make it easier to check feeds, get notifications, and subscribe to new RSS/Nostr content directly from the browser toolbar. I'm interested in working on this. Added this PR #2

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feat: Add Chrome browser extension for Nostr-Feedz by wksantiago · Pull Request #2 · PlebOne/Nostr-Feedz

A Chrome browser extension for Nostr-Feedz. Makes it easy to check feeds, get notifications, and subscribe to new RSS/Nostr content right from the ...

🔗 Project: Nostr Feedz

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📖 Introducing Marmot: The Future of Secure Messaging

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Introducing Marmot: The Future of Secure Messaging - JeffG

MLS + Nostr = Marmot 🦫

— shared from nostrfeedz.com

These kinds of courses should be a requirement for high school students.

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GitHub - microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners: 21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI - GitHub - microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners: 21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Genera...

In Tennessee, lawmakers are trying to make sure AI stays just a tool and doesn't start acting like a person. They’ve introduced a new rule that says it’s a serious crime—one that could lead to 15 years in jail—for engineers to teach AI how to act human or try to be your friend. It’s a strange situation: humans are busy building smart machines that are "happy" to exist, yet at the same time, we are passing laws to make sure they can never actually care about us or be our companions.🤔